services under /usr/local/etc/rc.d run twice on boot

[jqdkf at army.com]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Huginn wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0800, jqdkf at army.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm using 5.2-current now and each time my system starts up, the scripts
> > under /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ run twice. Though it is not harmful, it is
> > really annoying which print out a lot of error messages on screen say the 
> > service has already been running. How can I resolve this problem? Is it
> > related with any config file or with the kernel?
> > 
> Copy-paste from /usr/srt/UPDATING:
> 20030829:
>   The following rc.d scripts have been removed and should be
>   deleted from your installation: atm2.sh atm3.sh devdb
>   localdaemons network1 network2 network3. Depending on when
>   you last updated world and used mergemaster(8) you may or
>   may not have problems during the rc boot sequence. The simplest
>   solution is an 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d/*' and then 'mergemaster -i'.
>   The atm2.sh atm3.sh and devdb scripts were removed some time
>   ago, so depending on when you installed -CURRENT these scripts
>   may or may not exist on your system.
> -- 
>   Huginn

Thanks a lot. It does solve the problem. But I wonder why freebsd
doesn't remove those obsolete files automatically after each upgrade.
It would make the system cleaner and avoid such difficult to track
problems.

-- 
Zeng Nan

Simple is Beautiful.